The Idaho Foodbank is excited to announce the hire of a new Eastern Idaho Branch Manager in Pocatello. Jim Beitz is running the branch, which distributed the food for more than 5,000,000 meals through 62 partners in the last year. Beitz grew up in American Falls, so he knows eastern Idaho very well. After graduating […]

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By Michael H. O’Donnell modonnell@journalnet.com POCATELLO — Idaho Foodbank manager Rebecca Ristem knows the face of hunger. “A Hispanic family showed up two weeks ago with little kids and the 5-year-old had to translate,” Ristem said. “She said, ‘My mom and dad haven’t eaten in two days.’ The parents were going hungry to feed their […]

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